Dalai Lama Quotes
When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
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My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.
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When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
